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Friends of the Supreme Court : interest groups and judicial decision making / Paul M. Collins, Jr.
LIBRA KF8742 .C62 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Collins, Paul M., Jr.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Supreme Court.
- United States.
- Pressure groups--United States.
- Pressure groups.
- Constitutional law.
- Decision making.
- Constitutional law--United States--Decision making.
- Political questions and judicial power--United States.
- Political questions and judicial power.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- An Area of Confusion 4
- Moving Forward 10
- 2 Interest Group Litigation 17
- Interest Groups Defined 19
- The Decision to Litigate 20
- Methods of Interest Group Litigation 24
- The Goal(s) of Amicus Participation 28
- 3 Amicus Curiae Participation in the Supreme Court 37
- The History of Amici Curiae: From Friendship to Advocacy 38
- Rules and Norms 41
- Levels of Amicus Participation 45
- Amicus Participation by Issue Area 46
- Ideological Positions Advocated by the Amici 50
- Who Participates? 56
- Types of Information Supplied by Amicus Briefs 63
- 4 Amici Curiae and Judicial Decision Making 75
- Models of Judicial Decision Making 82
- The Legal Model 82
- The Attitudinal Model 86
- The Legal and Attitudinal Models: A Shared Characteristic 88
- Amici Curiae and Judicial Decision Making: Two Approaches 89
- Legal Persuasion and Amici Curiae 89
- The Attitudinal Model and Amici Curiae 92
- Overview and Clarification 97
- Modeling the Influence of Amici Curiae 98
- Other Influences on the Ideological Direction of the Vote 103
- Empirical Results 106
- 5 Amici Curiae and the Consistency of Judicial Decision Making 115
- The Importance of Understanding Variability in Decision Making 116
- Amici Curiae and the Consistency of Judicial Choice 118
- Modeling the Influence of Amici Curiae 122
- Other Influences on the Consistency of Judicial Decision Making 124
- Empirical Results 127
- 6 Amici Curiae and Dissensus on the Supreme Court 139
- The Importance of Understanding Separate Opinions 143
- Amicus Curiae Briefs: A Misapplied Surrogate for Salience 147
- The Influence of Amicus Briefs on Concurrences and Dissents 149
- Modeling the Influence of Amici Curiae 154
- Other Influences on Dissensus 155
- Empirical Results 159
- 7 Conclusions and Implications 165
- Amicus Participation: The Empirical Findings and Their Normative Implications 167
- Amicus Influence: The Empirical Findings and Their Normative Implications 171
- Future Research 177
- Appendix Data and Data Reliability 187
- The Kearney and Merrill Database 187
- The Original Data Collection 191
- Identifying the Liberal and Conservative Nature of the Amicus Curiae Briefs 193
- A Final Word on Methodology 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-219) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195372144
- 019537214X
- OCLC:
- 228632212
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